We confess, O our Lord and our God, the abundant
riches of your goodness toward us, repeat,
for though we were sinners and deficient, because of the abundance of your
mercies you deemed us worthy to minister the holy Mysteries of the body and
blood of your Christ, while beseeching the assistance which is from you for the
strengthening of our souls, that with perfect love and true faith we may
administer your gift to us.

Kushapa

Yea, our Lord and our God, repeat,
do not look upon the multitude of our sins, and let not your Lordship abhor the
burden of our wickednesses, but in your ineffable grace accept this sacrifice
from our hands, and endow it with power and authority, that it may be able to
pardon our many sins, that when you are revealed at the end of times in the
humanity which you took from us, we may find grace and mercies before you, and
may be deemed worthy to sing praise with the spiritual companies. And
the priest recites this prayer of Mar Bar Sauma while inclining before the altar:

Gehantha

Glory to you, O Finder of the lost. Glory to you,
O Gatherer of the dispersed. Glory to you, who bring near the far off. Glory to
you, who return the erring to the knowledge of the truth. Glory to you, my Lord,
for you have called me, even feeble me, in your grace, and have brought me near
unto you in your compassion, and have established me as a designated member in
the great body of your holy catholic church, to offer before you this living,
holy, and acceptable sacrifice, which is the memorial of the passion, death,
burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, through whom you
were well-pleased and reconciled to forgive the sins of all men. Repeat.

Qanona

For to you, O God, the Father of truth, and to
your Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and to your living, holy, and
life-giving Spirit we will lift up glory, honor, confession, and worship, now,
always, and for ever and ever. And he signs over
himself, and they respond: Amen. And the
priest says: Peace be with you. And the
people respond: And with you and with your spirit. And
the deacon says: Give the peace to one another in the love of Christ.
And they give the peace to one another and say:
For all catholicoi, bishops, presbyters, and deacons, and every member of a
religious profession who has departed from the assembly of the church, and for
the life and tranquillity of the world, and for the crown of the year, that it
may be blessed and fulfilled in your grace, and for every child of the church
who is worthy of the reception of this oblation before you, and for all your
servants and handmaidens who stand before you at this hour, for all of them and
for all of us may this oblation be accepted for ever. Amen. And
two deacons read the diptychs, that is, the roll of the living and the dead.

And the deacon says: Let
us all in purity and with sighs give thanks and beseech and supplicate the Lord.
Stand aright and look upon those things which are done in the fearful Mysteries
being hallowed. The priest draws near to pray, that by his mediation peace may
be multiplied for you. Lower your eyes, and stretch out your mind to heaven.

At once the priest draws near
and bows on his knees before the altar, and he recites this prayer:

Kushapa

O Lord God of hosts, repeat,
assist my weakness in your mercifulness, and through the assistance of your
grace make me worthy to offer before you this living and holy sacrifice, for the
aid of the whole community, and for the praise of your glorious Trinity, O
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for ever.

Then, as the deacon
says, Watchfully and earnestly beseech and supplicate at this hour.
Let no one venture to speak. Whoever prays, let him pray in his heart. In
silence and awe stand and pray. Peace be with us. The
priest at the same time rises and lifts the veil (discreetly) from the Mysteries,
and winds it round the chalice and paten, saying: Since you in your
grace have deemed me worthy of your body and blood, my Lord, in the same way
make me worthy of confidence before you on the day of judgment. Amen.

(Prayer for the incense:
In the worshipful and glorious name of your glorious Trinity may this incense be
blessed, which we offer to your honor and for our absolution for ever. Amen.)

And the priest censes
the table with the incense, saying: May the sweet incense delight you,
our Lord and our God, which we offer you before your holy altar within your
glorious temple. May it be for the gladness of your holy name, and for the
pardon of your servants and of your flock, O Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for
ever.

And the priest says to
the deacon: May Christ strengthen you to do his will continually. And
he continues (in an audible voice):

Qanona

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love
of God the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all, now,
always, and for ever and ever. And he signs over the
Mysteries, and they respond: Amen.

And he continues:

Qanona

Above in the exalted heights, in the fearful
place of praise where the rustling of the wings of cherubim and the pleasant
sounds of the hallowings of seraphim continues without ceasing, there let your
minds be. And they respond: With you, the
God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel, O glorious King. And
he continues:

Qanona

The living and rational offering of our First-fruits,
and the unslain and acceptable sacrifice of the Son of our race, which the
prophets depicted in a mystery, the apostles proclaimed openly, the martyrs
purchased with the blood of their necks, the teachers interpreted in the
churches, the priests sacrificed on the altar of holiness, the levites bore upon
their arms, and the people received for the pardon of their debts, is offered to
God, the Lord of all, for utterly all creatures. And
they respond: It is meet and right.

And the deacon says:
Peace be with us.

Or this Qulasa:
Remember the marvelous dispensation of Christ our Savior which was perfected for
us, for in his body he cheered our sadness, and with his living blood he has
sprinkled our hearts. With great care watch and pray. Peace be with us.

Kushapa

Lord, Lord, grant us boldness before you, that
with the liberty which is from you we may fulfill this living and holy ministry,
our consciences cleansed of all wickedness and bitterness. Sow within us love,
tranquillity, and unity with one another and with all men.

Or this: I
worship your grace, O my Lord, repeat, and
confess your mercifulness, for though I am unworthy, you have deemed me worthy
in your compassion to offer to you the glorious and divine Mysteries. I beseech
you, O my Lord, and request and beseech your grace, that they may be for the
tranquillity of the world, for the peace of creation, for the sustenance of your
faithful church, for the triumph of your priests, for the nurturing of your
faithful, for the preservation of your righteous, for the pardon and forgiveness
of the sins of the penitent, for the return of the lost, for the salvation and
assistance of all men, and for the wiping out of the offenses of all your
servants and handmaids who stand before you at this hour, through your grace and
mercies for ever. Amen.

Gehantha

The priest recites this gehantha softly:

O Lord God of hosts, eternally Self-existent One,
omnipotent Father, repeat, who eternally and
always exist and remain as you are, it is meet, proper, and right to confess,
worship, glorify, and exalt you at all times and at every hour. For you are true
God, incomprehensible, infinite, inexplicable, invisible, uncompounded,
impassible, and high and exalted above the thought and understanding of all
creatures. For you are in every place, infinite in your presence, you, and your
Only-begotten Son, and your Holy Spirit. Answer us, O my Lord, by giving us
eloquence, that we may offer you with a contrite heart and a lowly spirit the
spiritual fruit of our lips, which is a reasonable service. For you are our God
and the Father of our King, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ our Hope, in whom
are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and through whom we have
received the knowledge of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds
from you, Father, and is of the hidden nature of your Godhead, by whom all
rational natures, visible and invisible, are strengthened, sanctified, perfected,
and fulfilled. To you, and to your Only-begotten Son, and to the Holy Spirit we
lift up continual praise without ceasing at all times, for everything is your
handiwork. You brought us into being from nothing, and fashioned us, but when we
had stumbled and fallen and wasted away, you renewed us again, raised us up, and
purchased us. You did not cease doing all things carefully for us, as far as
lifting us up to heaven. You gave us the kingdom to come in your compassion, and
for all your kindnesses toward us we give thanks to you, God, the Father of
truth, and to your Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and to your living
and holy Spirit, and we worship you for all the gracious things you have done
toward us, those which we are aware of and unaware of, both open and hidden. We
give thanks to you for this ministry, and we supplicate you to accept it from
our hands, for who is sufficient to speak concerning the wonders of your might,
or to tell of all your glories. For not even if all creatures were one mouth and
tongue would they be sufficient to tell of your greatness, O my Lord. Repeat.

Qanona

For before your Trinity, O my Lord, stand
thousands upon thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand angels and
archangels, and all together equally they fly and circle about without ceasing,
and continually, with a loud voice, they ceaselessly shout and sing praise,
crying one to another and saying, and they respond,
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts, for heaven and earth are full of his
praises, and of the nature of his being, and of the excellency of his glorious
splendor. Hosanna in the heights. Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who
came and comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the heights. And
with each cry of “holy” the priest makes a genuflection before the altar.
And he kneels and says this kushapa.

Kushapa

(Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts, for
heaven and earth are full of his praises, and of the nature of his being, and of
the excellency of his glorious brightness, even as “heaven and earth are
filled by me” says the Lord.) You are holy, O God, the Father of truth, from
whom all fatherhood in heaven and earth is named. You are holy, O eternal Son,
by whose hand everything came to be. You are holy, O Holy Spirit, being through
whom all is hallowed. Woe is me! Woe is me! For I am amazed. For I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell among a people whose lips are unclean, and my eyes
have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. How terrible is this place, for today I
have seen the Lord face to face, and this is nothing if not the house of God,
and this is the gate of heaven. And now let your grace be upon us, O Lord, repeat,
and cleanse our uncleanness, and hallow our lips, and, O my Lord, mingle the
voices of our feebleness with the hallowing of the seraphim and the praises of
the angels. Glory to your mercies, for you have associated creatures of dust
with spiritual beings. And he rises and says:
Bless, O my Lord, bless, O my Lord, bless, O my Lord, my brothers, pray for me.

Or this: I
beseech you, O Lord, mighty God, repeat, and
supplicate your many mercies, I, your sinful and offending and miserable
servant, on behalf of my sinfulness and weakness, to forgive me my debts and
sins, and to accept this living and holy sacrifice from my feeble hands, for
myself, and for this your people, who hope for your salvation, that there may be
for us, O my Lord, pardon, healing, assistance, and mercies, and that, as your
holy body and blood are mingled with the bodies and souls of your servants, they
may cleanse us of the dross of sin and remove from us all the wickedness and
deceit of the Enemy of our humanity, and may fill us with the truth of the faith,
the light of the understanding of your dispensation, the perfect love of your
Lordship, and the good hope of your grace. Accept this pure and holy service
before you, and may we all, in every place, with one soul and one mind, be made
worthy to fulfill your will in true faith and perfect love, and be made worthy
to offer up praise to your Lordship for all your ineffable goodness toward us.

Gehantha

And the priest recites this gehantha softly:
And with these heavenly hosts, repeat, we
too, good Lord and God, merciful Father, cry out and say, You are holy in truth
and glorious in truth, and high and exalted above all, for you have deemed your
worshipers on earth worthy to become like those who glorify you in heaven.
Indeed, holy is your Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, with the Holy
Spirit, who is with you eternally, and is consubstantial with you, and is the
Maker of all creatures.

We bless, O my Lord, God the Word, the hidden
Offspring of your bosom, who, though he was in your likeness, and the Effulgence
from you, and the Image of your Being, did not consider being your equal
something to be forcefully held, but emptied himself out and took the likeness
of a servant, a complete man, of a rational, sentient, and immortal soul, and a
mortal body of men. He joined to himself and united with himself in glory,
authority, and honor the same passible nature, fashioned by the power of the
Holy Spirit for the salvation of all. He was made of a woman and was under the
Law, that he might redeem those who are under the Law, and that he might quicken
those who had died in Adam. He slew sin in his own flesh, and abolished the Law
of ordinances with his own commandments. He opened the eyes of our minds which
were blind, and trod out for us the path of salvation. He enlightened us with
the light of divine knowledge, and to those who received him he gave the right
to become the children of God. He cleansed and absolved us with the baptism of
holy water, and sanctified us in his grace by the gift of the Holy Spirit. Those
who were buried with him through baptism into death he raised up and made to
ascend, and seated them with him in heaven, according to the declaration of his
promise. He loved his own in this world, and he loved them to the end, becoming
a substitute for the payment of the debt of our race for the sake of the life of
all. He gave himself for all, for death which reigned over us, beneath whose
dominion we were subject, to which we were sold because of our sin, and by his
precious blood he redeemed us and saved us. He descended into Sheol and loosed
the bonds of death, and because it was not right that he should be held in Sheol
by death, the First-fruits of our salvation rose on the third day and became the
First-fruits of those who slept, that he might become the first among all, and
ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of your greatness, O God.

And he left us the commemoration of our
salvation, this Mystery which we offer before you, for when the time came in
which he was prepared to suffer and to draw near to death, on the night in which
he was betrayed for the life of the world, after (fulfilling the Passover with
his disciples according to the Law of Moses, he then instituted his own Passover
prior to dying, this, his commemoration, which we fulfill, as he committed it to
us, until he is revealed from heaven. For our Passover is Christ, who was slain
for us.

And after) he had eaten on the Passover of the
Law of Moses, he took bread into his holy, spotless, and undefiled hands, and
blessed, broke, and ate it. And he gave it to his disciples and said, Take, eat
of it, all of you. This is my body which is broken for you for the forgiveness
of sins. And in the same way too he mixed the cup with wine and water, and
blessed, gave thanks, and drank. And he gave to his disciples and said, Take,
drink of it, all of you. This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for
many for the forgiveness of sins. You must do the same for my memorial until I
come. For whenever you eat of this bread and drink of this cup you recall my
death until my coming.

Whoever, then, in true faith draws near and
receives of them, may they be for him, O my Lord, for the pardon of debts, for
the forgiveness of sins, for the resurrection from the dead, and for new life in
the kingdom of heaven. Repeat.

Qanona

And we will lift up praise, honor, confession,
and worship to you, O worshipful Father, and to your Son, the glorious Offspring,
and to your living, holy, and life-giving Spirit, now, always, and for ever and
ever. And he signs over the Mysteries, and they respond:
Amen. And the deacon says: Let us pray.
Peace be with us.

Or this qulasa:
Behold the gentleness and lowliness and obedience of Christ our Savior. With the
clear eye of the intellect and with the cleansed thought of the mind let us give
heed prudently and behold the Only-begotten Son of the Father being led to the
great suffering of the cross. Let us pray. Peace be with us.

Kushapa

O Lord God of hosts, accept this oblation (from
my unworthy hands) for all the holy catholic church, for all the just and
righteous fathers who were well-pleasing before you, for all the prophets and
apostles, for all the martyrs and confessors, for all the mourning and
distressed, for all the needy and harassed, (for all priests, kings, and rulers,)
for all the ill and afflicted, for all the departed who have died and gone out
from among us, for this people which looks for and awaits your mercies, and for
my unworthiness, misery, and poverty. Repeat.
Yea, our Lord and our God, according to your mercies and the abundance of your
kindness, deal with your people and with my misery, not according to my sins and
offenses, but may we—I and these—be deemed worthy of the pardon of debts and
the forgiveness of sins through this holy body which in true faith we receive
through the grace which is from you. Amen. And he rises
and says: Bless, O my Lord. Three times.

Or this: O
Lord God, compassionate, merciful, and pitiful, repeat,
I have now begun to speak before you: I, dust and ashes, beseech you, I, your
sinful, feeble, and offending servant, your debtor from the belly, a stranger
from you from the womb, your poverty-stricken one from my mother’s bowels,
pity me in your mercies, and draw me out of the sea of debts in your compassion.
Draw me up and take me out of the abyss of my sins in your kindness, and heal
the scars of my injuries and the bruises of my offenses with your all-healing
medicine. Grant me to open my mouth before you, and make me worthy to move my
lips in your presence. Permit me to petition you for my offenses and for the
forgiveness of sins, the pardon of debts, and the blotting out of my own faults
and of the sins of my colleagues and my companions, and to ask you for those
things which are appropriate and necessary from your Godhead; for to you, O Rich
One who does not suffer loss, and Treasury which does not fail, manifold
requests are offered at all times, and abundant gifts are granted by you
ungrudgingly. Do not be angry with me, O Kind and Patient One, for I have no
confidence before you. I say these things with boldness before your majesty, but
be favorable unto me, even if I am bold, because your name is invoked upon me.
Receive this sacrifice from the hands of my feebleness for your people and the
sheep of your flock, and for these things I give thanks to your name, and offer
worship to your Lordship, now, always, and for ever and ever.

Gehantha

And the priest recites
this gehantha softly: We too, O Lord of Hosts, God the Father, repeat,
commemorating this salvation given us, and all the things which have been done
for us, and before all believing in and confessing you, God, the Father of truth,
and the eternal begetting of the Godhead of the Only-begotten who is from you,
who in his consubstantiality with you was united as well to the marvelous
dispensation which was provided for us, which was achieved through our humanity
for the sake of the cross, suffering, death, burial, and resurrection on the
third day, and for the ascension into heaven, the seating at the right hand, and
the glorious second coming to us of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom you are
going to judge the dead and the living, rewarding everyone according to his
deeds; and furthermore, confessing the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, who is
also from the glorious essence of your Godhead, who proceeds from you, Father,
and with you and with your Only-begotten Son is together worshipped, glorified,
and honored above all, we offer to you this living, holy, acceptable, glorious,
fearful, and spotless sacrifice for all creatures, and for the holy, apostolic,
and catholic church from one end of the earth to the other, that it may be
preserved, immovable and without harm, from all scandals—yea,
our Lord and our God, repeat, keep it
unmoved and without harm from all scandals, spotless, undefiled, and without
wrinkle or anything resembling such things as these, for you have said through
your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, that the gates of Sheol shall never
prevail over her—and for all our fathers, the bishops in every land, who
proclaim the correct word of the true faith; and for all presbyters who minister
before you in faith, righteousness, and true holiness; and for all deacons who
hold the Mysteries of the faith with a pure conscience; and for every order of
your chaste and holy people, here and everywhere; and for all those who
knowingly and unknowingly have sinned and offended before you; and for the
feebleness of your servant, whom you have deemed worthy in your grace to offer
before you this oblation; and for all those who have virtuously provided for
your holy church by deeds of righteousness; and for all those who have poured
forth abundantly their alms for the poor; and for all faithful kings and for the
sustenance of their kingdoms; and for all princes and rulers of this world—and
we petition you, O my Lord, and we supplicate you, to establish in them your
fear, and plant in them your truth, and subject all barbarous nations to them;
and we beseech your Godhead, my Lord, to abolish wars from the ends of the earth,
and scatter the nations which desire war, that we may inhabit a quiet and
tranquil dwelling-place in all chastity and the fear of God—and for the fruits
of the earth and the temperature of the air, that the crown of the year may be
blessed through your grace; repeat three times,
and for this land and its inhabitants, and all its neighboring parts; and for
all lands and their inhabitants, that you might be merciful, and bless, keep,
and shelter them in your compassion; and for all travelers in the seas and on
distant highways; and for all those who are in afflictions, distress,
persecution, adversities, and troubles for the sake of your holy name; and for
all those who are afflicted and harassed in bonds and in prisons; and for all
those who have been banished to distant isles to perpetual torments and harsh
servitude; and for all our faithful brothers who are in captivity. And we
beseech you, my Lord, to also help those who in sicknesses and bitter pains are
tested and troubled. And we further supplicate your mercy, O my Lord, for all
our adversaries and enemies, and for all those who consider evils against us—not
for judgment or for vengeance, O Lord God of hosts, but for mercies and
salvation, and the forgiveness of sins, for you desire all men to live and to
turn to the knowledge of the truth. For you commanded us through your beloved
Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,to pray
for our adversaries and enemies, and for those who govern us with unjust force.

Qanona

In whatever, then, O my Lord, we have
transgressed and sinned as mortal men, loose and forgive and pass over and
pardon—you, O Good One, who in your mercifulness govern all.For in our unity with one another we lift up to you glory, honor,
confession, and worship, now, always, and for ever and ever. And
he signs over himself, and they respond: Amen. And
the deacon says: Pray in your minds, peace be with us.

Or this qulasa:
Lift up your eyes to the heights above and behold with your inward minds, and
endeavor to give thought to those things which are ministered at this hour in
which the seraphim in awe stand before the throne of the glory of Christ, and
all together with a loud voice, without ceasing, cry out and sing praise for the
body which is set forth and the chalice which is mixed, and the priest who
petitions, supplicates, and asks for mercy for utterly all the world. In your
thoughts stand and pray. Peace be with us.

Kushapa

Worthy of praise from every mouth, repeat,
and confession from every tongue, and adoration and exaltation from every
creature is the worshipful and glorious name of your glorious Trinity, O Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, for you created the world in your grace and its
inhabitants in your mercifulness; you saved men in your compassion, and showed
great grace unto mortals. Thousands upon thousands of those on high bow down and
worship your majesty, O my Lord, and ten thousand times ten thousand holy angels
and spiritual hosts, the ministers of fire and spirit, glorify your name,and with holy cherubim and spiritual seraphim offer worship to your
Lordship, repeat,

Or this:
Glory to you, O our Lord Jesus Christ, for in your mercies you have counted me
in the number of your priests. Repeat. Glory
to you, my Lord, for you have associated me with the band of your priests. Glory
to you, my Lord, for you have ordered me in the company of your presbyters.
Glory to you, my Lord, for you have established me at this hour to supplicate
for your people before you. Glory to you, my Lord, for you have deemed me worthy
to boldly mediate for your people and to lay hold of the skirts of your mercies.

Have pity, O my Lord, upon your people which
stands and awaits your mercies. Turn toward the erring sheep who are lost from
your fold. Pardon sinners who have transgressed the commandments of your laws.
Have mercy upon all creation through the abundance of your mercies. Forgive
debtors in your compassion. Be reconciled to offenders in your pity. Return the
straying to your fold. Gather the scattered to your household. Relieve the
afflicted in your grace. Soothe the harassed in your compassion. Perfect the
alms of those who act in your name. Help those who continue in the way of truth,
trusting in you. Quicken the departed who have lain down in your hope, and raise
them up graciously by your right hand, and gladden them with the heavenly
benefits of your kingdom with all the just and righteous who from of old have
pleased you. And for your people, who have gathered in your name and stand
before you at this hour, pardon their debts, blot out their defects, cleanse
their faults, and forgive their sins. Heal their pains and cure their diseases.
Overthrow their adversaries and bring their enemies to an end. Make their
offenses to pass away, and remove their scars. Wash their sores. Fill up their
deficiencies. Return back their loss. Resuscitate their mortality. Console their
vexation. Pacify their tumult and enlighten their darkness. Exalt their fallen
state. Enrich their poverty. Comfort their affliction. Incline yourself to the
petition of my sinfulness on their behalf, and also to me, your sinful and
offending servant, for you have moved me today by your grace to prostrate before
you at this hour. Come to my aid and stir yourself up for my salvation. Lift up
my lowliness. Exalt my baseness. Pardon my sinfulness. Make my offenses to pass
away, hear my prayer, receive my petition, lead me in your pathways, bring me to
your promise, give me fellowship in your Mysteries, place me with those at the
right hand in the world of your blessings, make me to recline in the place of
delights with all members of your household, and make me worthy to stand boldly
before the throne of your glory with all your saints. Pour out upon my
sinfulness the gift of your mercies, by the prayer of the bodily children of the
earth, those who honor you, and the petition of spiritual beings who are above
the firmament, those who glorify you, your cherubim and seraphim, and the angels
of light, those who hallow you. Amen.

Then he recites this gehantha softly.

O Lord God, Father almighty, we beseech you, repeat,
and bow and worship before you: turn to the erring, enlighten the darkened,
uphold the weak, raise up the fallen, strengthen the standing, and do what is
fitting and suitable to everyone in your mercies.

And we beseech you, my Lord, and supplicate
before you, that you remember by this oblation the fathers and patriarchs, and
the prophets, apostles, martyrs, confessors, bishops, teachers, presbyters,
deacons, and all our fellow ministers who have gone out from this world, and all
our brotherhood in Christ, and all who in the true faith have departed from this
world, whose names you know, loosing and forgiving them, in whatever way they
have sinned and offended before you, as men prone to evil and clothed with
passions. By the prayer and petition of all who have been well-pleasing before
you, turn to us and have mercy upon us and upon all your servants and
handmaidens who stand before your holy altar. Make us all worthy to participate
in the portion and inheritance which comes to your saints in the light. Grant us,
O my Lord, that with the sincerity of love and with the purity of clean thoughts
we may live before you in this dwelling-place of our sojourn, while we gain
exact knowledge of the truth which is in you, and we fellowship in the fearful,
holy, and divine Mysteries. And when we stand before the fearful judgment seat
of your greatness, may we not be ashamed and condemned. As in this world you
have deemed us worthy of the ministry of your fearful, holy, life-giving, and
divine Mysteries, so too in the world to come make us worthy, that with
confidence we may fellowship in all the good things which do not pass away and
cannot be destroyed. And when you make an end of these things which we here lay
hold of as in a mirror and type, may we there lay hold openly of the Holy of
Holies in heaven.

Therefore, we, my Lord, your deficient, feeble,
and miserable servants, repeat—he makes the sign and
stretches out upon his face, who were far off from you, and because
of the multitude of your mercifulness you have deemed worthy to stand before you
and minister this fearful and glorious ministry, together beseech your
worshipful Godhead which renews all creatures,

may there come, O my Lord,

the grace of the Holy Spirit. May it dwell and
rest upon this oblation which we offer before you. May it bless and consecrate
it, and may it make this bread and this cup the body and blood of our Lord Jesus
Christ, while you change and consecrate them by the operation of your Holy
Spirit, so that the reception of these glorious and holy Mysteries may be for
all who receive them unto eternal life, resurrection from the dead, the
absolution of body and soul, and for the light of knowledge and confidence
before you, and for the eternal salvation which you promised us through our Lord
Jesus Christ, that we may all be joined to one another in one unity in one bond
of love and peace, that there may be one body and one spirit, as we are called
in one hope of our calling. And may no one eat and drink to the condemnation of
his body and soul; may there not be for him sickness and disease because of his
sins through eating this bread and drinking this cup unworthily, but may he be
strengthened and increased in all things which are pleasing to you,while we are made worthy with a clear conscience to partake in the body
and blood of your Christ. Repeat.

Qulasa

In place of “in
stillness and in awe”: O how fearful is this hour and
anxious this moment in which the priest invokes the Spirit and he
descends from on high and does his will, and hallows this heavenly
Eucharist, which is the body and blood of Christ our Savior, for the
pardon of debts and the forgiveness of sins of its recipients. In
silence and fear, and with trepidation and trembling, stand and pray.
Peace be with us.

Qanona

That when we stand before you at the fearful and
glorious tribunal, before the throne of your greatness, we may find mercies and
compassion, and may take delight with all those who from of old have been well-pleasing
to you through the grace and mercies of your Only-begotten, for to you, with him,
belong glory, honor, dominion, and exaltation, with your living, holy, and life-giving
Spirit, now, always, and for ever and ever. And he
signs over the Mysteries, and they respond: Amen.